Peter Perfect's fans outraged : "But, the controversial move has angered fans who wrote the heartfelt messages as they grieved their hero's loss in a rally car event last year."
How can people's feelings for Peter Brock be an eyesore? All these unilateral decisions so there is no sense of history and care? Who cares? Gone now. We were never like that and we thought about how we honoured people. Maybe the wall wasn't pretty, but it was unique and it was a living tribute to a person we very greatly admired. People don't write messages on walls like that. It is so unusual and so special and ought to be considered a sign of how we, as a nation, will create something to fit the needs of a given situation. We are spirited and imaginative then someone comes along with the paint pot of bureaucracy. What is wrong with consultation? Talking to people? Engaging those who cared enough to write on the wall to help solve the problem? Now nothing can be done about it. It cannot be photographed, moved, enshrined in a cafe or whatever idea might have fitted the wall. It's now just a wall. That's what we think of Peter Brock. I know he was a no fuss, no frills man but he also recognised that people had feelings and cared. It's why he spent so much time encouraging young ones. He wrote on people. They wrote on the wall.
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